Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review of the Week
Living by Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, by Tom Nettles. Matt Smethurst interviews author Tom Nettles about his new biography on a fascinating pastor from church history.
Articles of the Week
The Marriage Debate: Where Do We Go from Here?, Ryan T. Anderson. “Regardless of who calls us uneducated, or un-American, or enemies of the human race, regardless of the next bad Court decision, regardless of whatever the future may hold, God doesn’t ask us to be successful, He asks us to be faithful.”
To Those Struggling with Same Sex Attraction, Kevin DeYoung. “There is time for toughness and a time for tears, a time for defense and a time for letting down our defenses, a time for rallying the troops and a time for putting up our hands to show that we come in peace.”
Moving the Church from Villain to Mentor, Scott McClellan. “To a lot of people, the bride and body of Christ is a mustachioed figure with a black cape and a maniacal laugh. It’s as though we’ve hatched a diabolical scheme to blow up Progress Bridge in order to prevent the Culture Train from reaching Godless Liberal Town. We’re the opposition; we’re in the way. But I wonder if we could change that.”
10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now, Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker. This article is an amusing and insightful indictment of our love for lists. Don’t get me wrong—I love lists—but they just might be, as O’Connell says, “the house style of a distracted culture.”
On The Lighter Side
Who needs a drum when you’ve got an old tractor?
